In this work, in order to estimate the possibility of using lemongrass oil as an antifungal agent for skin diseases (cutaneous candidiasis and dermatomycosis), the antifungal activity of this oil and its main component, citral, against Candida species was studied.

Onychomycosis and dermatomycosis require swift treatment in patients with diabetes due to the risk of complications, even loss of a limb, and patients with diabetes generally respond well to treatment with itraconazole.

Dermatomycosis as recognised by Conant et al (1) is a superficial skin disease caused by the species of the genera Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton which are highly specialised parasites interrelated by their common morphological features and physiological adaptations to a parasitic mode of existence on keratinised tissue of man and animal.

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